Dissertation Reserach: Mission Pueblo Ceramic Analyses: Implications for Protohistoric Interaction Networks and Cultural Dynamics

在国家科学基金会的支持下，帕特里夏·卡彭女士将 为她的博士论文收集资料。她将检查 美国西南部美洲原住民对西班牙语的反应 发生在17世纪的传教活动。开始 大约在1630年，西班牙人在这里建立了许多使团。 该地区的目标是将美洲原住民转变为 基督教并将他们融入西班牙经济体系 系统美洲原住民被迫为印第安人提供劳动力 任务。虽然很明显，特派团确实产生了重大影响， 在美洲原住民的生活方式上，变化的性质和程度是 不太了解。也不知道如何一致地不同 美洲原住民群体适应了。 这项研究的目的是利用当地生产的陶瓷， 研究这个问题。在史前的西南部， 进入历史时期，陶瓷被广泛生产和交易， 广阔的领域。一些装饰的类型被移动很远， 可能是由当地的专家制作的。陶瓷 因此，提供了对经济和贸易组织的深入了解， 以及更间接地融入政治和社会结构。 卡彭女士将检查两个普韦布洛在阿波，新墨西哥州，和阿瓦托维， 亚利桑那州，位于东部和西部的末端， 普韦布洛地区。她将研究每个地区的地质 以定位和表征粘土来源。然后她将学习 两个地点的陶瓷材料， 截面分析在此基础上，她将能够将船只绑在 原材料来源地。她还将考虑以下因素 生产工艺的均匀度决定 专业化每个站点都跨越使命前和使命期间 因此，卡彭女士将能够审查的问题， 连续性和变化。初步研究表明， 美国人更抵制传教带来的变化， 历史数据显示。 这项研究很重要，因为它将增加我们的 了解不同的文化是如何相互作用的 其他.它将为文化变革提供新的视角，并有助于 培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

With National Science Foundation support, MS Patricia Capone will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will examine the response of Native Americans in the U.S. Southwest to Spanish missionization which took place during the 17th century. Beginning in about 1630 the Spanish established a number of missions in this region with a goal both of converting Native Americans to Christianity and of integrating them into a Spanish economic system. Native Americans were forced to provide labor to the missions. While it is clear that missions did have a major effect on Native American lifeways, the nature and degree of change is less well understood. It is also not known how uniformly different Native American groups adapted. The goal of this research is to use locally produced ceramics to examine this issue. In the prehistoric Southwest and continuing into historic times ceramics were widely produced and traded over broad areas. Some decorated types were moved great distances and likely were produced by specialists in localized areas. Ceramics therefore provide insight into economic and trade organization as well as - more indirectly - into political and social structures. MS Capone will examine two Pueblos at Abo, New Mexico, and Awatovi, Arizona which are located at the Eastern and Western ends of the Pueblo region respectively. She will study the geology of each area to locate and characterize clay sources. She will then study ceramic materials from both sites by means of petrographic thin section analysis. On this basis she will be able to tie vessels to raw material source areas. She will also look as such factors as uniformity of production to determine the degree of craft specialization. Each site spans the pre-mission and mission periods and therefore MS Capone will be able to examine the issue of continuity and change. Preliminary work suggests that native Americans were more resistant to change by missionization than historic data suggests. This research is important because it will increase our understanding of how very different cultures interact with each other. It will shed new light on culture change and assist in the training of a promising young scientist.